I know I can generate an KVM VM with the virsh-install command, but virsh-install always runs the installation program.
I hope there is a way to generate an KVM VM (set memory size, cpu core number, network and disk image) without running the installation program.
Is that possible?
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How to generate a KVM VM witout the installation step?
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Re: How to generate a KVM VM witout the installation step?
What's the question? Does installation refer to the guest OS? If you create the machine with a previous working image as it's storage, it fires up that image. No storage, just a post screen and no OS message. Live iso, boots it...etc.
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Re: How to generate a KVM VM witout the installation step?
Yes, the installation refers the guest OS installation.CwF wrote:What's the question? Does installation refer to the guest OS? If you create the machine with a previous working image as it's storage, it fires up that image. No storage, just a post screen and no OS message. Live iso, boots it...etc.
In fact I am looking an way to write a Perl script to generate many VMs, so I hope I can generate an VM and without starting it (the generation command can immediately run and return).
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Re: How to generate a KVM VM witout the installation step?
I never use the virsh-install command. It's not necessary. In fact, that command is not even available on my system.
Here are some examples from my notes:
Hopefully those examples are helpful. I haven't used QEMU or KVM for several years, so the above info may be a little out of date. Instead of using the qemu or kvm commands, I believe that the proper way to do it nowadays is use variations of the qemu-system command.
Some examples:
qemu-system-i386
qemu-system-x86_64
qemu-system-arm
qemu-system-ppc
qemu-system-ppc64
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm
[With KVM enabled.]
I hope that's helpful.
Phil
Here are some examples from my notes:
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# Install Windows XP
$ cd /media/sdc1/VMs
$ qemu-img create Windows-XP-tests.img 5G
$ qemu -localtime -net none -cdrom /media/sdc1/Temp/WinXPpro.iso -m 512 -boot d Windows-XP-tests.img
[I think I wasn't using KVM because I thought the installation might go more smoothly without it (not sure why).]
# Launch the Windows XP SP3 testing VM with networking turned *off*:
$ cd /media/sdc1/VMs
$ kvm -localtime -net none -m 512 -hda Windows-XP-SP3-tests.img -hdb FAT32-1GB.img
Some examples:
qemu-system-i386
qemu-system-x86_64
qemu-system-arm
qemu-system-ppc
qemu-system-ppc64
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm
[With KVM enabled.]
I hope that's helpful.
Phil
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Re: How to generate a KVM VM witout the installation step?
Download a disk image:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/buster/daily/
^ Pick today's date then select the generic amd64 qcow2 image.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/cloud/buster/daily/
^ Pick today's date then select the generic amd64 qcow2 image.
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